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Welcome to the final and Part 4 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform where we demonstrate NAPP Scale-Out. NAPP scale-out is supported only on Advanced form factor (which we performed in the previous article) and also requires the TKC / Kubernetes cluster to be scaled out with the appropriate number of worker nodes.…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 4 NAPP Scale-Out

Welcome to Part 3 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform. In the previous article we deployed NSX Application platform in standard form factor which supports the below NSX features: NSX Metrics NSX Malware Prevention NSX Network Detection and Response In this part, we will upgrade the form factor to “Advanced” in order to…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 3 Form Factor Upgrade

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP). In Part 1 we discussed the pre-requisites for NAPP and walked through the current environment which is set up with vSphere with Tanzu on VDS networking with NSX Advanced load balancer. Here is the link to Part 1,…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 2 Deployment

NSX Application Platform (NAPP) was first introduced in NSX-T 3.2 which is a containerized platform to host the below NSX features: NSX Intelligence NSX Malware Prevention NSX Network Detection and Response (NDR) NSX Metrics To enable NSX Application Platform (NAPP), we require a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster or any CNCF conformant upstream Kubernetes cluster with the…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 1 Environment Setup

I had the privilege to present a topic at the prestigious event – VMware Explore India 2023 with my colleague and friend Vinay Agarwal (@vmvtips) held at Jio World Center, Mumbai. This was a breakout session and our topic was “Achieve Security and Availability in Containers with Antrea, AKO, AMKO & NSX” (CSCA1104-26IN) held on…… Continue reading My Session and Experience at VMware Explore India 2023

Until NSX-T 3.2.2, a compute manager (vCenter) can be managed by only a single instance of NSX-T (or NSX) manager. This means that all clusters in the compute manager will be prepared by the same NSX instance and if data plane isolation is required between clusters, it is achieved using separate NSX transport zones and…… Continue reading Multi NSX support for Compute Managers

Transport node profiles (TNPs) are a way to consistently apply NSX configuration to vSphere compute clusters. TNPs define the transport zones (overlay and/or VLAN), VDS configuration, uplink profile, TEP IP assignment (DHCP or IP pools) and teaming policy uplink mapping to VDS uplinks. TNPs are applied at the vSphere cluster level and as such, they…… Continue reading NSX Transport Node Profiles (TNP) and Sub-Transport Node Profiles (Sub-TNP)

Welcome to the final and Part 4 of the blog series on Stateful Active-Active gateways in NSX 4.0.1. In the previous parts we discussed about stateful active-active single tier & two-tier routing, new terminologies like edge sub-clusters, interface groups, shadow interfaces, peer-shadow interfaces, traffic punting and packet walks with different supported topologies. If you missed…… Continue reading NSX 4.0.1 Stateful Active-Active Gateway – Part 4 – Edge Sub-Clusters and Failure Domains

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 3 of the blog series on NSX 4.0.1 Stateful Active-Active Gateways. In Part 1, we dealt with a single tier routing scenario with workload segments attached directly to a stateful A/A T0 gateway. In Part 2, we extended the topology to two tier, where the workload segments are attached…… Continue reading NSX 4.0.1 Stateful Active-Active Gateway – Part 3 – Routing Considerations and Packet Walks

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on NSX Stateful Active-Active Gateways. In Part 1, we dealt with a single tier routing scenario where we had the logical segments attached to stateful A/A T0 Gateway and discussed about Edge sub-clusters, Interface groups, shadow and peer-shadow interfaces, traffic punting, edge node selection…… Continue reading NSX 4.0.1 Stateful Active-Active Gateway – Part 2 – Two Tier Routing